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Ang Bayan Is Published Duterte's BBL Fans the Flames 3 Tary and Police to Suppress Pahayagan ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ANG Pinapatnubayan ng Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoismo English Edition Issue XLIX No. 11 June 7, 2018 www.philippinerevolution.info NPA ambushes PNP in Mt. Province TEN POLICE OFFICERS were wounded while one was killed in an ambush successfully launched by the New People's Army-Mt. Province (Leonardo Pacsi Com- mand or LPC) against PNP oper- ating troops in Mt. Masini in Barangay Aguid, Sagada last June 5. Among the wounded are PSupt. Joseph Bangcawayan and Insp. Mariano Liban Jr.. According to Ka Magno Ugyaw, spokesperson of the LPC, the PNP has been operating in the area since February to arrest small-scale miners who purport- EDITORIAL edly operate without permits. Ironically, the destructive opera- Struggle amid tions of foreign large mining cor- porations remain unhampered. Under the pretext of a bogus total crisis and fascism log ban, police officers prohibit indigenous peoples in the area he social crisis under the US-Duterte regime is deteriorating from cutting timber for household rapidly. Millions are ruined by worsening poverty and hunger use. These two pseudo-environ- in the face of rising prices, additional tax burdens and a sharp mentally friendly campaigns have Tdecline in wages and income. Duterte's promised "change" is a sham. been extensively used to violate It is now clear that only by organizing and struggling can the people the rights of the people. carry forward their cause. Ka Magno added that the Duterte blindly perpetuated is not even half of the income prohibition imposed by the PNP on the previous oppressive neoliberal needed by a typical family to live the Igorots to use the resources socio-economic policy. The worst decently. Millions are scrambling in their own ancestral lands is a among these is the TRAIN law daily to make ends meet amid ris- blatant violation of their right. which imposed a number of bur- Meanwhile, in Northeastern ing costs of food, rent, water, Mindanao Region, NPA units con- densome taxes. Since its imple- electricity, fare, education, medi- ducted not less than seven mili- mentation in January, prices have cal care and others. Millions are tary actions last May 25-31. The shot up, especially of basic needs. denied sufficient wages and bene- AFP suffered not less than eight Making things worse, prices of fits, as well as their right to job casualties from these successful diesel and other petroleum prod- security. Almost nine million Fil- attacks. ucts have risen by around 40%. ipinos are unemployed or under- Two harassments and a snip- Wages of workers and ordinary employed, in addition to 27 million ing operation were conducted by employees are extremely inade- who are no longer counted in the the NPA-Surigao del Sur. On May quate to cope with skyrocketing labor force. Many are made to 25, the NPA was able to flank and prices. The meager minimum wage work in precarious conditions. ...continued on page 3 They are additionally oppressed by expand rubber and oil palm pro- rights to the land they till. They contractual forms of employment duction. launch collective occupation and which Duterte promised but failed The Filipino people are being cultivation of land. They are am- to end. compelled by the intense socio- plifying their call for an end to the Across the country, landgrab- economic crisis to struggle to de- CARP fake land reform program. bing by big landlords and capital- fend and advance their welfare and The struggles of teachers, ists in real estate and agribusiness interests. Struggles are breaking government employees, students to pave the way for commercial out. In the past few weeks, several and other democratic sectors for crops, plantations, infrastructure strikes and protests have erupted higher salaries, free education, and energy projects, timber and successively to demand regular- strengthening public services and mines is rampant. Duterte has ization of contractual workers and others are also advancing. turned a deaf ear to the grievances an increase in the minimum wage. Since Duterte has assumed of peasants for genuine land re- In the rural areas, peas- power, no measure or policy has form; and is more interested in ant struggles continue to ad- been carried out to redirect the agribusiness deals with foreigners, vance the demand for genuine local economy and draw it out especially land reform and assert their from crisis. In the possible re- in his sumption of peace negotiations push to with Duterte, the agenda includes genuine land reform and national industrialization—key issues which the NDFP asserts as the most important measures to raise the toiling masses from their im- poverished conditions and achieve lasting peace. Over the past two years, Duterte has refused to listen to the pleas of the poor. Tyranny and terrorism have been the response ANG Contents of the fascist regime in its aim of suppressing resistance and, thus, Editorial: Struggle amid crisis and fascism 1 impose his kind of peace—that desired by the exploiters and op- Vol. XLIX No. 11 | June 7, 2018 NPA ambushes PNP in Mt. Province 1 pressors. Duterte uses the mili- Ang Bayan is published Duterte's BBL fans the flames 3 tary and police to suppress. Cases in Pilipino, Bisaya, Iloko, of killings, arrests, detention and Congress mangles the BBL 4 Hiligaynon, Waray and English. filing of trumped up charges are Ang Bayan welcomes Martial law year one met with protests 5 rampant. contributions in the form But the rising up of the Filipino of articles and news items. Repressive national ID system 5 people is inexorable. They shatter Readers are encouraged Bureaucratic-capitalist corruption 6 the terror that Duterte imposes to send feedback and and strive to advance along the recommendations Parade against tyranny 7 for improving our newspaper. course of resistance. They could NutriAsia workers go on strike 8 not remain silent and bear en- instagram.com/sine.proletaryo National minorities evacuate 9 slavement and oppression. They draw strength from their unity and AFP and PNP massacre 9 Moros 10 @prwc_info steadily advance in the path of Defend Lumad schools 11 struggle. The sparks of resistance fb.com/groups/cppinformationbureau In honor of Ka Pepe Luneta 11 are bound to ignite a conflagra- [email protected] tion. Soon, the march of the indig- Farmers demand CARP's burial 12 nant masses will thunder across Ang Bayan is published fortnightly by the Central Committee the country and shake the ram- of the Communist Party of the Philippines parts of Duterte's rule. 2 June 7 , 2 01 8 ANG BAYAN "NPA ambush...," from page 1 fire at the 36th IB headquarters in Roque, Magsaysay, in the same town. in Sitio Lemteneneg, Barangay Ke- Upper Ambago, Barangay Dayuan, On May 30 in Agusan del Norte, matu, T'boli on May 8. Ten AFP Tago. On May 26, another NPA unit the NPA ambushed Edgar Panisan, an troopers died while 11 were harassed the 75th IB troopers in active CAFGU trooper in Mahaba, wounded. Km. 9, Diatagon, Lianga. On May 31, Cabadbaran. Panisan used his posi- In Quezon, the NPA sniped op- the NPA sniped the "C" company tion in the village as councilor to con- erating troops of the 80th IB in Sitio 36th IB headquarters in Barangay duct surveillance and coerce civilians Longo, Umiray, General Nakar on Cabangahan, Cantilan. Sgt. Alden to surrender as NPA members. May 24 at around 6 a.m. An Awadi was killed in action. In North Cotabato, the NPA was AFP official In Surigao del Norte, the NPA able to seize the initiative from was killed ambushed 36th IB troopers on May attacking 39th IB in action. 26 in Little Baguio, Bacuag who were troopers on May On May returning from their military opera- 8 at around 27, the tion. One was killed while five were 10 a.m. in NPA ha- wounded among the soldiers. Sitio Kapatagan, Barangay Lu- rassed a pla- In Agusan del Sur, the NPA ha- ayon, Makilala. Not less than nine toon of the 80th rassed a CAFGU detachment in were killed among the soldiers dur- IB in Sitio Inami- Barangay New Tubigon, Sibagat on ing the firefight. tan in the same May 29. On the following day, the In South Cotabato, the NPA barangay. Several NPA sniped elements of the 8th Spe- blew up a command-detonated ex- soldiers were wounded cial Forces Coy occupying Sitio San plosive against troops of the 27th IB in the offensive. Duterte's BBL fans the flames of the Moro people's struggles* DUTERTE’S BANGSAMORO Basic Law (BBL) is set to further reinforce their the broad masses of peasants, national oppression. It subsumes any so-called "Moro authority" to be exer- workers and semiproletariat, as cised in the BBL under the 1987 Philippine constitution and the powers of the well as petty-bourgeois intellectu- central government. als, to continue waging revolution- Most critically, it reserves the oil palm plantations, and make the ary resistance. central government's exclusive broad masses of the Moro people Various armed Moro revolu- right to operate an armed forces suffer widespread displacement tionary groups are bound to inten- within the Bangsamoro area, and from their lands. sify their armed struggle as puts local police operations under Duterte's BBL is an insidious Duterte's BBL makes it crystal clear the Philippine National Police. measure which pretends to serve that they have no other recourse. Duterte's BBL aims to disempower the Moro people but in fact aims to The Communist Party of the Philip- the Moro people by disarming and oppress them further. The broad pines (CPP) and all revolutionary demobilizing their armies, thus dis- spectrum of Moro groups are dis- forces reiterate full support to the abling them from defending their enchanted, to say the least.
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